The Political Dynamics of the Decision on the Olympic Games Host City: Focused on the IOC

The bid process of the Olympic Games host city has increased in complexity. The Olympic Games have become the competition of reference for all sports. In the bidding for the Olympic Games with a more hotly contested, the IOC has great power. The main purpose of this study is to investigate the structure of bidding system of the Olympic Games and to find the factors that influence the vote in the IOC. An empirical framework is presented for more theoretically oriented interpretations of what happened inside the IOC. This study rectifies and examines the formal organizational structure and processes of the IOC－namely the internal or external factors that both organize and affect decisions such as olympic games bid.